Hanuman, the monkey God, is a central hero of the Ramayana.
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Rama and Sita (the union of soul and pure intellect) then return to Ayodya and establish Rama Rajya on earth, a life of divine glory, free of fear and suffering, which symbolizes jivan mukti, the state of enlightenment. This means that the soul and buddhi (the higher mind) are joined, after the mind has been purified in the fire of spiritual practice and becomes intuitive. Rama is then reunited with Sita, after she undergoes the fire ordeal. When the war has come to an end, Rama installs Vibhishana to be the ruler of Lanka – the sattva guna rules the unconscios.
In this process the light of the soul dissolves the darkness of the unconscious and allows the unconscious to be ruled by sattva. In this way the soul, after developing sattva, is able to overcome the power of the rajasic and tamasic forces. Vibhishana switches allegiance to Rama, which allows Rama to destroy the demons. Vibhishana is sattva, Ravana is rajas, and Kumbhakarna is Tamas. The demon brothers Ravana, Kumbhakarna and Vibhishana, represent the negative aspects of the three gunas that keep the soul in bondage. Rama, the soul, then enters the kingdom of the demons (the recesses of the unconscious mind where the roots of ignorance, egoism and evil dwell). This bridge is the mystical connection into the unconscious, built with the rocks of shubha samskaras (pure impressions, the cultivation of a pure mind). Rama then builds a bridge across the ocean to Lanka. This means the soul and higher intelligence are connected through insight into the practice of meditation and Samadhi. Hanuman burns Lanka (he overhauls the unconscious) and brings the news of Sita to Rama. Then he sends Hanuman (the sadhana shakti, power of spiritual practice) to find Sita. He befriends monkeys and bears, which means the soul integrates the energies of the senses. In order to find her and free her, Rama meets sages and saints (seeks satsang or spiritual company). This wins him the hand of Sita, which means the higher, spiritual intelligence (buddhi) comes alive in us, leading us to enlightenment.īut Sita, the intellect, is kidnapped by the demonic force (Ravana-avidia or ignorance) and imprisoned in Lanka, the depth of the unconscious mind. Rama-the soul-breaks Shiva’s bow, which is symbolic of breaking the spell of ego, the spell of ignorance, and of embarking on the spiritual quest. His three queens are the positive aspects of the three gunas (modes of nature): Kausaliya is Sattva (harmony, balance, light and intelligence our higher spiritual potential), Sumitra is Rajas (the power of action, energy, movement and change), and Kaikeyi is Tamas (darkness, inertia, dullness, unconsciousness).
King Dasharatha stands for the human personality. Sita is the intellect (buddhi) that finds its divine origin. Shatrughna represents reason, and Bharata is the emotional aspect of the personality, which is channeled into devotion. On the level of our relative existence the protagonists represent the aspects of our lives: Rama stands for the soul in the process of awakening. Sita is the Divine Mother, who, through the Cosmic Mind, is the cause of the multiplicity of life. His brothers stand for sat-chit-ananda, the divine attributes-existence, consciousness, and bliss. Rama symbolizes the Supreme Self, the Ultimate Reality, the Brahman of the Upanishads. The whole story is told with fascinating detail in Swamiji’s “Mysticism of the Ramayana,” available at yrf.org. Here is a simplified summary of the mystical significance of the major elements of the Ramayana, following Swami Jyotirmayananda’s lucid interpretation. It gives us a master key, a highly sophisticated psychology of the Higher Self, which transforms the reader on levels much deeper than the thinking mind. It is a story told by the enlightened mind to enlighten us. The tale engrosses the heart and mind because it is infinitely deeper than its surface narrative. In this fantastic tale of the adventures of Gods and demons, humans, monkeys and bears, the fertile mind of India takes us into a journey to our own liberation. The Ramayana is one of the greatest stories ever told. A Mystical Interpretation of the Hanuman Chalisa
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